How much inflation costs you each month
As the federal government’s official measure of inflation continue to reach 40-year highs, one obvious question is how that 7.5 percent number translates into the average person’s monthly cash flow….
Facebook’s tumble is a sign competition is alive and well
The major political parties can agree on one thing: they despise so-called “Big Tech” companies. The reasons vary, but the list of proposed remedies is remarkably similar – break those…
Inflation begins to dig in
While the Federal Reserve promises it will start taking inflation seriously, likely through a series of interest rate hikes over the year, prices are still going up. And that means…
The COMPETES Act: A top-down, pork-laden monstrosity
We’ve written before about the COMPETES Act, a massive corporate welfare/industrial policy scheme that a bipartisan gaggle of members of Congress are all too eager to pass before the mid-term…
Democrats ponder gas tax holiday to stem inflation
The old news: Rising gas prices have some Democrats worried they will get wiped out in the November elections. The new wrinkle to the old news: Democrats propose a federal…
Inflation galloping ahead according to January data
The producer price index roared ahead in January at double the rate economists forecasted: The producer price index, which measures final-demand goods and services, increased 1% for the month, against the…
Paying more for public education to get less
A standard talking point of both teachers’ unions and public school bureaucrats is that education is woefully underfunded, and so more money is needed right away to avoid losing a…
Anti-health “certificate of need” laws need to be eliminated
Pandemics are massively disruptive events that can results in profound, long-term changes. And some of them are for the better, as could be the case in South Carolina: The state…
2022 could be a big year for tax cuts
Most state legislatures are currently in session. Normally, having thousands of politicians at work is cause for alarm. But according to the Tax Foundation, there may be good tidings ahead…
Who’s behind inflation? Look at the Federal Reserve
One popular line of thinking in GOP circles is that Joe Biden’s trillions of dollars of stimulus spending is a big driver of our current inflation. Stop the spending (and…
